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Rules related to checking for any SEO issues on the page given
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Descriptions in HTML5 documents are like the Highlander, there may be only one. They are not like agent Smith, but more like Neo. According to W3C: `There must not be more than one meta element with its name attribute set to the value description per document.`
```
<head>
<meta name="description" content="Some content of less than 160 characters that does a great job of describing your search engine listing"></meta>
</head>
```
# How do I fix this ?
You will have to remove all but one of the `<meta name="description"></meta>` tags. Keep the one (or adjust it) that will describe your page best to a human so that they will click on it and use the right keywords so that robots like it too.
# Resources
* [W3C Specification](https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/document-metadata.html#standard-metadata-names)
* [Moz about meta descriptions](https://moz.com/learn/seo/meta-description)